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Mo Farah has been listening back to BBC Radio 5 live's Mike Costello's commentary of his 5000m win last night.

"It sounded brilliant," the four-time gold medallist said.

"There was a lot of stuff going on in my mind but I had to try and be strong. It was a matter of staying strong and believing and coming away with gold all was all I was thinking about.

"I have just got to trust in my kick. It is something I am good at and naturally have. You never know what will happen, who is there got and you have got to be ready to respond from everyone and be aware of everyone."

Steve Cram
BBC athletics commentator on BBC TV

What a run from him, Callum Hawkins has run the race of his life.

 He’s just setting off on his marathon career, which is surely full of marvellous prospects. 

A top 10 finish, nobody could have believed this.

Callum Hawkins comes through to finish ninth. An absolutely superb run.

Steve Cram
BBC athletics commentator on BBC TV

That familiar old sprint from Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, who’s ran a brilliant race. He’s enjoying this taking all the adulation from the crowd. 

Superb from him – that’s hurt, but he’s made all the others hurt more. 

Eliud Kipchoge, Olympic champion.

Callum Hawkins is making up places rather than hanging on.

The news from down the course is that the Scot is up in seventh place.

A Braveheart performance. They questioned whether he was foolhardy to up the sluggish pace early. It looks perfectly justified now.

Kenya's EliudKipchoge is getting a police escort towards the finish. Forty kilometres run, just two to go.

Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa is slowing behind him and might yet be overhauled by American Galen Rupp who is looking ropey himself.

Both could be in danger from world champion Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea.

It is coming to a thrilling conclusion. Just not for gold. 

Brendan Foster
Olympic medallist and BBC athletics commentator on BBC One

Eliud Kipchoge is the man with the perfect record. Seven marathons raced, six won. Is the eighth going to be his golden race?

Eliud Kipchoge is piling on the pace.

He has 13 seconds on Feyisa Lilesa in second.

Galen Rupp of the United States is toiling hard in third. He could be gobbled up by the pack behind over the last five kilometres

Callum Hawkins of Great Britain is still putting in an excellent showing. He is 11th at 35km and Stanley Biwott of Kenya has dropped out in front of him.

A top-10 finish would be sensational.

Scrap that.

Galen Rupp is left choking on dust as Eliud Kipchoge presses the pedal once more after a little pause in hostilities.

Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa has managed to cling onto the Kenyan's coattails, but only just.

Kipchoge even has the confidence to order Lilesa out of his slip-stream.

This is a statement of intent.

The American media are starting to sniff a story.

Galen Rupp is comfortable with the pace that Eliud Kipchoge has applied.

Can he upset the African applecart?

Started training for your own marathon or the local 5K run? Got a few questions on your mind?

Before they headed off to Rio, athletic greats Paula Radcliffe and Micheal Johnson joined Get Inspired for a special Q&A engineered by you.

Your running questions answered by a couple of people who know their stuff. Watch it back, external to get some insights.

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What of Great Britain's Callum Hawkins?

He led the race for stages before the pace picked up.

But he is still on target to achieve his aim of a top-20 finish, placed 14th through 30km.

There are 42km to a marathon metric fans.

USA battle back to win the third set in the men's volleyball bronze medal match against Russia, who still lead by two sets to one.

We are down to four at the front.

Eliud Kipchoge - the Kenyan London Marathon champion of Kenya - is joined by American Galen Rupp and the Ethiopian pair of  Feyisa Lilesa and Lemi Berhanu.

Make that three.

Berhanu is going out of the backdoor as the pace bubbles up.

Meet Tom, a Florida resident who last night told me he was at his 10th Games.

He won't pick a favourite as he respects local cultures each time he says. But he's hooked, he trades pins at Games to break the ice and meet new people.

After a chat I walk away and some 500 metres later meet three young Brazilians. They ask me if I want to trade pins. I say no and point them in Toms's direction, showing them the above image to identify him.

"Ah man, that's my friend," says one of them with excitement. "Is he here? Where?" 

Off he skips quickly to find Tom. The words "that's my friend" stick with me.

Two people, based thousands of miles apart and separated by probably three decades in age yet bound together by Olympic magic. And pins.

Are you in need of some Callum Hawkins info?

Well, in brief - he's from Kilbarchan in Scotland; he started running in the cross-country aged eight; he was encouraged by his father Robert Hawkins, an elite runner; he made his marathon debut for Scotland at the 2015 Frankfurt Marathon, alongside his brother Derek; he studied mechanical engineering; his hero growing up was Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele.

And athletics won over football because, “I could run about for ages, external but when I actually had to kick the ball, I couldn’t.”  

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This is where the dream turns to torture for Callum Hawkins.

Eilud Kichoge - the Kenyan winner of the 2015 and 2016 London Marathons - come to the fore, bringing a clutch of elite runners with him.

Team-mate Stanley Biwott and American Galen Rupp is among them.

Callum Hawkins is in a pocket of about five runners just behind. He has defending champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda for company.